Doves fly over the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park during the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Thursday marked the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. The U.S. has said the bombings hastened Japan’s surrender and eliminated the need for a U.S. invasion that would have cost many more lives. The toll on the two Japanese cities was heavy. Here’s a look, by the numbers, at that day 70 years ago:

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350,000: Population of Hiroshima before the bombing, of which 40,000 were military personnel.

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140,000: Estimated death toll, including those who died from radiation-related injuries and illness through Dec. 31, 1945.

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300,000: Total death toll to date, including those who have died from radiation-related cancers.

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